Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 2 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 3 | Colchester Hackney Carriage Association had pleaded with the borough council to relent after they were told cabbies would face five or six per cent increases on licence charges this year . |
| 4 | Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group . |
| 5 | Whatever the book 's faults might be , it was seen to be an original contribution of power , and that a new force in Christian thinking had appeared among the Churches in England . |
| 6 | Now , here again , in the past , group selectionist thinking had tended to the view that all you need for sex if it 's for the benefit of the species is a regular male , a regular female , doing the regular thing and er everything will be alright . |
| 7 | Here a horse had bolted into a field . |
| 8 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 9 | Previous attempts to establish a common tariff had foundered on the objections of the smaller CARICOM members , who feared that it would have a negative impact upon their economies . |
| 10 | Mummy had retired from the hotel business . |
| 11 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 12 | The National Trust and the Trustees of Waddesdon Manor had come to the decision that it would be in the best interest of the house for as much work as possible to be carried out at one time , and the range of the repairs is such that the house can not be reopened until April 1993 . |
| 13 | In ancient times the manor had belonged to the Martyns before they left for Athelhampton . |
| 14 | By 1317 the manor had passed from the hands of the de Costentin family into those of the de Caversham family who , in turn , passed it on to the Herberts in 1550 . |
| 15 | In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation ; Gleanings and Memoranda headlined the speech " The Coalition Form of Government almost indispensable . " |
| 16 | The position of the minority governing coalition had worsened with the resignation of Finance Minister , Andrzej Olechowski , on May 6 following the Sejm 's refusal to oppose a Constitutional Tribunal ruling concerning index-linked revaluations of pensions and public sector salaries . |
| 17 | United States officials refrained from commenting directly on the death sentences , but a State Department spokesman said on June 20 that the Bush administration had called on the government to respect human rights . |
| 18 | Instead of basing landlord compensation on the land 's productive value ( 2@1/2 times the annual harvest ) the administration had adhered to the concept of " fair market value " . |
| 19 | The company denied Greenpeace 's claim that the chemicals were carcinogenic ( cancer-causing ) and also that their misuse had resulted in the contamination of food supplies in importing countries . |
| 20 | In the writer 's view this convention was the preposterous off-spring of a distorting egocentric illusion to which the children of a Western Civilisation had succumbed like the children of all other known civilisations and known primitive societies . |
| 21 | Russian television reported on Sept. 26 ( citing Interfax news agency ) that shooting had resumed in the area of the Lachin corridor [ see map on p. 38925 ] . |
| 22 | Yussuf 's ex-wife had come to the police station and would not go away . |
| 23 | No courier had come from the south . |
| 24 | A couple of years earlier , Jacko 's investment had consisted of the introduction of a group of very willing young ladies to his previously well liquored stag party of civic and other dignitaries . |
| 25 | Also in late March fighting had erupted to the north of the Karen heartlands as government-backed Wa guerrillas battled with the private army of " warlord " Khun Sa for control of narcotics routes into Thailand . |
| 26 | On March 26 the South African Council of Churches issued a call for a national council of " leaders of the affected communities " to meet within a week , arguing that the violence had gone beyond the control of the ANC and Inkatha . |
| 27 | Fears of escalating violence had grown after the VHP with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) -led government in Uttar Pradesh , defied a High Court order [ see p. 38532 ] by commencing work at the disputed site on July 9 . |
| 28 | When he left for Canada six years earlier , Northern Ireland had the lowest crime rate in the United Kingdom and no political violence had occurred for a number of years . |
| 29 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 30 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |